“The Edge” by Stephanie Wilkins was taken at West Thumb Geyser Basin, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. Stephanie Wilkins is a photographer from Northfield, IL. … [Read more...]
Somehow it’s September. What’s new with Solace contributors?
I gotta lotta reasons for not writing the blog recently. Summer is ending. A household project is starting. The conventions are on. But you know the real reason is that sometimes I am just lazy. But contributors to Solace in So Many Words haven't been lazy. T. C. Boyle has a story "Birnam Wood" in The New Yorker (September 2, 2012 issue). Joe Meno is interviewed in TriQuarterly (June 17, 2012). Philip Levine has a poem "How to Get There" in February issue of Poetry, and … [Read more...]
My Way by Samuel Beckett
MY WAY my way is in the sand flowing between the shingle and the dune the summer rain rains on my life on me my life harrying fleeing to its beginning to its end from Samuel Beckett's MY WAY, (translated by Mary Ann Caws) from Solitude, Everyman’s Library Pocket Poems, Alfred A. Knopf, 2005 … [Read more...]
Some days
Some time ago I mentioned how a poem of mine was chosen to be included in Highland Park Poetry's Poetry That Moves in which poems and their graphic depictions are posted on Pace Buses in the northern suburbs. Well, my month was August, so here's my poetry poster. My gratitude goes to Isa Spoerry who designed the poster and to Jennifer Dotson who works so hard for poetry. … [Read more...]
Poetry on Sunday afternoon
On July 22, a Sunday afternoon, Woman Made Gallery (and Nina Corwin) hosted a poetry reading by “Poets who Open Doors.” Featured readers were Kristy Bowen (dancing girl press), Shanny Jean Maney (The Encyclopedia Show), Jennifer Karmin (Red Rover Series), Emily Rose Kahn–Sheahan (Mental Graffiti, Real Talk Live), Johanny Vazquez Paz (Palabra Pura, Guild Complex) and Susan Yount (Arsenic Lobster, Chicago Poetry Bordello). It was a lively and lovely event. Jennifer Karmin … [Read more...]
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